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- The Dolores River is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 241 miles (388 km) long, in the U.S. states of Colorado and Utah.
- The Utah section of the Dolores River offers technical rapids, stunning scenery, wildlife viewing, side-canyon hiking, and camping.
- The Dolores River, which is a shortened version of the English translation meaning “River of Our Lady of Sorrows”, has been designated as a “Wild and Scenic” river.
- Today, the Dolores River provides water to the cities of Cortez and Dove Creek, and to the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe via manmade canals and reservoirs.
- People know a lot of things about the Dolores River. You may know it’s in the southwest area of Colorado.
- The River of Our Lady of Sorrows, the Dolores River, was named “El Rio de Nuestra Senora de Dolores” when a Spanish trader encountered the river in 1765.
- The river probably was named Río de Nuestra Señora de los Dolores (“River of Our Lady of Sorrows”) by the Spanish trader Juan Maria Rivera c. 1765.
- Colorado's Dolores River covers a ton of ground on the Western Slope and helps supply water for drinking and agriculture to several communities.
- Wildlife spotters and photographers heading to this section of the Dolores River will find they're not short of subjects to focus their binocular or camera lenses on.
